"Michael Coslo" wrote


When along comes a jet, full afterburner, supersonic, and not too far above my
head. On his tail was another, doing the same. The area is as much wilderness
as you can get in PA, so the AF sometimes flew excercises there.


Skipper of one of the ships I served in was Capt. Deke "Guinea One" Bordone who
came up through the "Top Gun" F4 (Tomcat) environment. While he'd been promoted
out of being an active driver (O6), he still had a lot of connections in the
carrier air wings.
Often when we were operating in support a carrier battle group, he'd call down
to radio central and ask us to bring up "Land/Launch" Nestor circuit and patch
it to the bridge wing. (Land/Launch is the "air control" channel for carrier
operations.)

That was everyones signal to get out on the main deck and put your fingers in
your ears and look to the sky, because he'd then coordinate fake
strafing/bombing runs on his own ship.

73, de Hans, K0HB